hi!!
I have provided water, electricity and all the utilities possible. my houses have only developed into mansions although thier lad value is rated as 'high'. what do i do?
Whatchamacallit?!?!
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SimCity 4 tips
HI!!
I have kept an enormous amount of points for this question as I have to cover many aspects of the game in this question.
First how do we make a beach in Simcity 4. I have tried to level the land in many places and have not succeeded in anyway.
Secondly I have never played any of the SimCity games before and this is my first one. I have seen that in the game previews they show rows and rows of residential and commercial towers in the game. The thing is that I have made dense residential towers and dense commercial towers (in separate locations in my city) and the furthest development of my houses have been that they have become into mansions (victorian, stone etc.) How am I supposed to make them develop into those soaring towers?
Thirdly I have seen that all of a sudden some of my houses become black and their wealth reduces. What causes this to happen? I cannot find any mention of this in the manual at all.
Also I have found it a bit tough to raise capital as it seems the only way to do so is by the tax system which when I even hint to increase, I receive 'riots' from my sims.
Thank you,
Whatchamacallit?!!
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Admittedly I only have the demo of sim city 2000 but it's fairly similar, this minimal town builds big buildings within the first 5 years as long as tax is low: you'll have to add the power and water but no other utilities, not even a school, paste it into notepad or whatever to read it in a monospaced font.
R = dense residential
I = dense industry
C = dense commercial
X = road
P = large park
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Power up the industry and the residence on the left first because one of the houses turns into a church and you don't want that in the 3x3 box, then power the other 2 zones.
The best SimCity game to ever grace Maxis has to be SimCity 2000 Network Edition because of its network features, nuff said.
You are getting Mansions because cities must build out before they can build up. I think the approximate population you must reach before high zoned residential and commercial tiles develop to above medium standards is at 80,000.
As far as money, network to a neighbor and place all the expensive buildings there for power, water, and waste then buy as much as you need in your town so you don't waste money maintaining that stuff. Just be very careful with those connections, a city that loses its life line will crumble in a matter of years.
and this is the shape of a slope has to be to build a beach on it:
first row green, second tan, third and down under water...must be atleast 4 tiles wide on the shore and half goes on land and the other half goes under water
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You can actually build the beaches, I have a resort town with at least 12 beaches. Here are some tips.
The ground has to be very level (read very little slope) into the water. Also, the beach front should be virtually a straght line. The criteria for laying the tile is that the water / shore interface is virtually straight. If the beach is not aligned the way you want to lay it you press "home" to realign it. Doing this sometimes makes its go blue on terrain where before it hadn't been.
Finally, the easiest way to make a beach is to enter "God" mode before you build your city and coax the terrain into the forms I mentioned above. Using your tool, when in mayor mode will result in sometimes big expenses.
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by: andyalderPosted on 2003-10-21 at 04:51:59ID: 9589934
I don't think you can build a beach, from the screenshot it looks like a 3*3 plot with a slope in the middle, try making roads like the ones in the shot and perhaps having water near it and it might develop.
The big buildings need a 3x3 corner plot on dense zoning but only develop if the land has high value, try surrounding the area with parks and other public utilities and make sure they have water.
Your houses become black because the people have moved out, try lowering the rates and they will come back.
I'm not surprised your people are rioting, you should look after them better. Spend money on all the public ordinances like free health care, make sure there are enough police stations and schools.
A way to make money quickly is to have zero tax, the buildings develop very fast, then up the tax to maximum, the people move out slowly then drop the tax to zero again when half of them have moved out. Something like 4 months zero tax and 8 months max tax works quite well.